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The University of Mississippi "Civil Rights Documentation Project", University of Southern Mississippi; Dr. John Dittmer, "'Barbour is an Unreconstructed Southerner': Prof. John Dittmer on Mississippi Governor's Praise of White Citizens' Councils", December 22, 2010 video report by Democracy Now!
Robert Boyd "Tut" Patterson (December 13, 1921 – September 21, 2017) was an American plantation manager and former college football star who is known for founding the first Citizens' Councils, a white supremacist organization, established in Indianola, Mississippi in 1954, in response to the Brown v.
Wednesdays in Mississippi was an activist group during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s. Northern women of different races and faiths traveled to Mississippi to develop relationships with their southern peers and to create bridges of understanding across regional, racial, and class lines.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos via Getty/Public DomainIn Mississippi, the emphasis of the civil rights struggle had shifted from direct-action campaigns involving sit-ins and protest ...
Forced sterilization set Fannie Lou Hamer on path to the Mississippi Civil Rights movement. In 1961, a white doctor gave Hamer a hysterectomy without her consent or knowledge when she underwent ...
In Mississippi, African Americans were restricted from registering and voting by means of intimidation, harassment, terror, and complicated literacy tests. [2] They had been limited from participation in the political system since 1890 by passage that year of a new state constitution, and by the practices of the governing white Democrats in the decades since, with participation in the state ...
The effort was organized by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a coalition of Mississippi's four most prominent civil rights organizations, [2] with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) taking a leading role. [3]: 231 By the end of the campaign, over 78,000 Mississippians had participated. [4]
In 2016, Dorie Ladner, a Hattiesburg, Mississippi, native, speaks to United States Department of Justice lawyers about her experiences during the civil rights movement.